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Gunman who shot US congressman was Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer who asked victims: “Are you Democrat or Republican?”

American political rhetoric has always been overheated. It led to one civil war; will it led to another?

John Wilkes Booth thought that Lincoln would use his troops and his negroes to establish a dictatorship in the post-Civil War United States. After he shot Lincoln, he shouted Sic semper tyrannis – thus always to tyrants.

The Democrats have been loudly accusing Trump of being incompetent —and of being a budding tyrant and tool of Vladimir Putin. The accusations are contradictory, but logic has never had much influence in politics.

One Bernie Sanders supporter has taken the rhetoric with deadly seriousness:

The man identified by authorities as the shooter at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday was a Bernie Sanders volunteer who signed a petition to impeach President Donald Trump, his social media posts show. James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old from Belleville, Illinois, is suspected of shooting five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, during a Republican lawmakers team practice for an upcoming game against Democrats. He later died after being shot by police, President Donald Trump confirmed.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalese R. Louisiana

The 66-year-old Illinois man who opened fire early Wednesday on members of Congress practicing for a charity baseball game, raged against President Trump and once singled out House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was wounded in the attack.

A neighbor, Noah Nathan, was out walking his dogs when the shooting started. He dropped to the ground and pulled out his phone to video a left-winger trying to kill Republican congressman precisely and only because they were Republican. Here is the video

Hodgkinson apparently posted repeatedly about politics on Facebook, most recently slamming Trump and calling for him to be removed from office.

“Trump is Guilty & Should Go to Prison for Treason,” read one post that shared a video calling for Trump’s impeachment. Another said: “Trump is a mean, disgusting person.”

Kathy Griffin thought it was hilarious to tweet a picture of herself holding the blood-stained head of a beheaded Donald Trump.

New York is hosting a play in which Trump stands in for Julius Caesar and is assassinated.

Some Trump haters – how many? – have decided if they can’t win elections they will kill the Republicans who do win elections.

If Trump is assassinated or even impeached, his supporters will think that the Left will not honor the results of elections, so why try to win by peaceable means. Which side do you think the majority of police and military would be on if it comes down to a violent confrontation between right and left?

This miscalculation caused the Left in Spain to provoke and then lose a civil war.

The Democrats try to brush off anxiety about violence off as unreasonable; they tell Americans that they should be worried about the real danger: global warming.

In a new interview published in The Atlantic magazine, President Obama says he is more worried about climate change than the terrorist group ISIS.

“ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States,” he told Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg. “Climate change is a potential existential threat to the entire world if we don’t do something about it.”

In France the Socialist Prime Minister has this consolation:

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated, “We would like to tell the French people that we will never give in. We will not give in to the terrorist threat. The times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism.”

Terrorism is the new normal, and they will just have to get used to it, because the Socialists will do nothing effective to prevent it (not even coordinating the intelligence and security services).

It is a great consolation as one’s throat is being cut that the government is focused on global warming. Somehow I don’t think the electorate is going to accept this, and will turn to those who promise to end the violence (although the cure may end up being worse than the disease).

UPDATE: The Breath-Taking Incompetence of the Socialist Government:

One of the Normandy church murderers was a convicted terrorist who was meant to be living with his parents with an electronic tag on his ankle, according to security sources.

The astonishing revelation – made to the French TV news channel I-Tele – well cause further outrage in a country devastated by constant security failings.

Two attackers were shot dead by police commandos during the siege at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray this morning, and their identities are already known to the authorities.

One, who lived close to the church, is said to have left for Syria in 2015 to try and join Islamic State, but he was arrested in Turkey.

He was jailed for terrorist offences following a short trial in France, before being released on March 2nd this year.

But this did not stop him becoming involved in today’s atrocity, in which Father Jacques Hamel, 86, had his throat cut.

Neither of the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray attackers have yet been named.

French security services have been regularly criticised for the way they allow known terrorists their freedom after being found guilty of crimes.

The church where a priest was killed after having his throat cut by two knife-wielding hostage-takers was on the ‘kill list’ of a suspected ISIS terrorist arrested last year.

The two attackers entered the Church of the Gambetta at around 9.45am local time (8.45am UK time) during morning prayers and took a priest, two nuns and two worshippers hostage.

Parish priest Jacques Hamel was killed and a worshipper is fighting for life after being attacked before police shot the two knifemen dead.

It has since emerged Sid Ahmed Ghlam, 24, – who was arrested in Paris last April – had the name of the church in a series of documents believed to be related to the planning of terror attacks.